Film Production
‘The Boy & the World’ to woo Indian cinephiles on FEB 9th 2018
After the success India Release of AsgharFarhadi’s 2016 Drama “The Salesman”, SUNIL DOSHI’s Alliance Media is bringing to Indian cinephilesone of the most celebrated Brazilian animation feature films “THE BOY AND THE WORLD” on 9th Feb 2018 in select cinemas in India.
Written and directed by Ale Abreu, the film is originally from Brazil and was nominated at the 88th Academy Awards for Best Animated feature. The film was created using a mix of drawing, painting and digital animation.
The film is a heartwarming story of a little boy Cuca who goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father and discovers a fantastic world dominated by animal-machines and strange beings. The film talks about the issues of the modern world through the eyes of this little Cuca.
Says Mr. Sunil Doshi on why he acquired this film and the reason to bring it to quality Indian audiences “The visually thrilling film backed up with a refreshingly different storyline will enthrall younger viewers while resonating deeply with adults”.
The film is being released in select theatres in Mumbai & Bangalore and will be expanded to other centres steadily. A detailed school contract program is being set in motion to get school children to watch this film along with their parents.
The blueprint of Indian film business still remains quite vague as far as world cinema is concerned. However, people like Sunil Doshi who has maintained a stance of being a standalone film activist for decades make occasional waves in the otherwise mundane Fridays of India. He is the man who has brought Farhadi’s oscar-winning film to Indian theatres (subtitles in English) along with Oscar nominated Turkish Drama MUSTANG released directly onAmazon Prime & WINTER SLEEP by NuriBelgeCeylan and now brings for Indian cinephiles the much celebrated brazilian animation feature film “THE BOY & THE WORLD”which has many international awards under his novel initiative, ‘Sunil Doshi Presents’.
Doshi’s latest venture under his company Alliance Media and Entertainment promises to bring more of world cinema to Indian multiplexes in 2018 starting with THE BOY & THE WORLD this Friday.
Film Production
Priyanka Kaur Dhillon joins SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution
A seasoned content dealmaker with 16 years in digital and satellite media joins the Bengali entertainment powerhouse as it pushes into the pan-India music market
Mumbai: Priyanka Kaur Dhillon has made her move. The content acquisitions and commercials veteran, most recently commercial manager at Sony Pictures Networks India, has joined SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution, stepping into one of the more interesting briefs in regional entertainment right now.
SVF is no ordinary regional label. Over 30 years it has built a formidable legacy in Bengali cinema and music, driven by culturally resonant storytelling and a catalogue that consistently punches above its weight. Its recent success with Chiraiya underlines the point. But the Kolkata-based powerhouse now has its sights firmly set beyond Bengal, most visibly through Legacy, a rap reality series produced in collaboration with hip-hop label Kalamkaar that signals a deliberate push into the pan-India music ecosystem.
Dhillon brings precisely the kind of muscle SVF needs for that expansion. At Sony Pictures Networks India, she led film acquisition and commercials and handled music licensing across the entire satellite network. Before that, she spent nearly 15 years at Hungama, rising to assistant general manager and leading strategic content licensing for the platform’s digital entertainment business, with a particular focus on international markets. Her label relationships span the full roster: Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Believe International, Tunecore, The Orchard and a clutch of smaller aggregators. She has negotiated and closed deals with Hollywood studios, Bollywood production houses and regional content players alike, building pricing models and deal structures off data analysis rather than instinct.
Announcing the appointment, Dhillon said she was “thrilled to begin this journey with an iconic Bengali music label and content powerhouse,” adding that SVF’s “constant drive to push boundaries” was what drew her to the role.
SVF has spent three decades proving that regional does not mean limited. With a sharp commercial operator now steering its music distribution, its bid to go national just got a good deal more serious.
